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orangepurple on Oct 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Signal is secure, as proven by hackers

Telegram has e2ee in the form of "secret chat"

palata on Oct 7, 2022 [–]

Which you mostly don't want to use if you use Telegram. The nice features of Telegram are the ones that are not e2ee!!!

Having secret chats is mostly for marketing, to pretend it's private. But it's mostly confusing.

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